A Rust-powered watchdog that monitors GitLab Personal and Project Access Tokens, tracks their expiration dates, and notifies you before they die via Prometheus metrics.
🛡️ GitLab Warden
GitLab Warden is a lightweight, blazing-fast Rust utility that keeps your GitLab tokens under watch. No more “why the hell did my pipeline stop working?” mornings — Warden checks token expirations, warns you in advance, and integrates beautifully into your DevOps workflow.
🚀 Features
🔍 Fetches Personal, Project, and Group access tokens from the GitLab API
⏳ Tracks and reports days until expiration
🔔 Sends alerts via Slack, Telegram, Email, or Console logs
📊 Exposes Prometheus metrics for observability stacks (Grafana-friendly)
⚙️ Works standalone, in GitLab CI, or as a cronjob
⚡ Built in Rust — safe, fast, concurrent, and dependency-light
🧠 Use Cases
Centralized monitoring of all tokens in your org
Automated expiry alerting to Slack or Telegram
Integration with Grafana dashboards
CI/CD pipeline health assurance
🔧 Configuration
Set your environment variables in a config file: server: "your-gitlab-instance" token: "your-access-token"